Markus Pössel
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Astronomy and relativity outreach (Tweets in German & English) | personal account | he/his | managing scientist @hausderastronomie.bsky.social | director @astro4edu.bsky.social |outreach @mpi-astro.bsky.social | Seestar enthusiast
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Welcome new followers! I’m interested in astronomy education and outreach, and count myself lucky to have a job managing @hausderastronomie.bsky.social and @astro4edu.bsky.social that allows me to follow that passion! I also post about politics, mostly related to climate change. 1/
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ironspike.bsky.social
What the fuck kind of attempt to lead by the hand even is this
junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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profannawatts.bsky.social
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."
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telescoper.bsky.social
"He has published articles in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astrophysical Journal, and The Open Journal of Astrophysics, among other leading scientific journals."
mpoessel.de
Eyes @telescoper.bsky.social : Kareem's biography on the MacArthur web pages explicitly mentions @ojastro.bsky.social :-)
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alexwitze.bsky.social
You've probably heard how a high percentage of #Nobel laureates are immigrants. The US in particular has benefited from the influx of bright minds.

@jennaahart.bsky.social ran the data for this century's Nobel prizewinners — and shows more than 30% immigrated. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.
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Eyes @telescoper.bsky.social : Kareem's biography on the MacArthur web pages explicitly mentions @ojastro.bsky.social :-)
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melissagiragrant.com
Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…
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boghuma.bsky.social
Cameroon my country has its presidential election this coming Sunday. The 92 year old president who has been in power 42 years is running again for a 7 year term. The only people who think having an authoritarian in power is "fun" have never lived under dictatorship. He will likely "win" again.
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stim3on.bsky.social
Ha! It looks like Avi Loeb silently edited his Medium post about the Perseverance Navcam images, after being called out for his wrong interpretation.
While he previously claimed the image was of 3I/Atlas, he now says the claim came from "social media". 🔭
A paragraph about the Navcam image that claimed the image is of 3I/Atlas was edited to say "This was claimed on social media to be an image" of the comet A paragraph that previously only mentioned the object creating the source could be much closer to the camera than Atlas was extended with a speculation that it could be one of the Martian moons.
mpoessel.de
Ach ja, und Tagesschau: Wenn ihr bei so einem Beitrag Arbeitgeberverbände, aber keine Sozialverbände oder Verbände die z.B. mit Obdachlosen arbeiten zitiert, habt ihr euch vom Unparteiischen Journalismus bei diesem Thema auch verabschiedet. Schämt euch.
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Ich möchte von denjenigen Politiker*innen, die jetzt bei der Reform des Bürgergelds die Möglichkeit von 100%-Sanktionen beschließen, obwohl das BVerfG-Urteil das als Verstoß gegen die Menschenwürde einstuft, nie mehr Klagen über Demokratieverdrossenheit hören.
Die Regeln beim Bürgergeld sollen strenger werden. Was ändert sich?
Das Bürgergeld ist bald Geschichte, künftig heißt es Grundsicherung. Der Koalitionsausschuss hat sich zudem auf strengere Regeln geeinigt. Was wird gelten? Und warum soll es die Änderungen geben? Ein ...
www.tagesschau.de
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esqueer.net
It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.
Alt text: A tweet from DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) reads: “Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post–Civil War era. • Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave • Players would fight the emerging KKK • Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash.” The source link is listed as “gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubisof…”. Below the text are two images side by side: on the left, a hooded Assassin in white and red armor from the Assassin’s Creed series; on the right, the red Assassin’s Creed logo on a plain background. The tweet was posted at 4:11 PM on October 8, 2025, and has 665.8K views.
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carlzimmer.com
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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markus.reuter.netzpolitik.org
Wie mir gerade eine EU-Quelle bestätigte, ist die Abstimmung zur #Chatkontrolle am 14. Oktober von der Tagesordnung im EU-Rat genommen worden.
mpoessel.de
Zu spät, hat das EU-Parlament wohl gerade heute beschlossen zu verbieten!
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mpoessel.de
Endlich werden unsere Straßen sicherer! Die Streber, die schon nach drei Jahren nachweisen konnten, richtig integriert zu sein, müssen einfach mal richtig was aufs Dach bekommen. So etwas gehört sich doch einfach nicht! Danke Merz! /s
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Guter Punkt. Da hat mich dann auf die evt. falsche Spur geführt, dass die Korrektur das besser/schlechter dastehen ja gerade nicht auf ein vorher-nachher, sondern auf E-Auto vs Verbrenner bezieht. Interessant wäre jetzt noch, was denn nun in dem Reiche-Brief steht…
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Wenn ich das lese, frage ich mich, wie Regieren aussehen würde, wenn in einer solchen Sitzung nicht (nur) die Unternehmens-Lobbyistin (pardon, Mittelstandsvertreterin) sondern auch jemand am Tisch säße, der/die einen realistischen Blick auf Bürgergeldempfänger*innen und deren Nöte liefern kann.
juliusbetschka.bsky.social
"Irrsinn!" - "Es brodelt" - "Das geht so nicht"

Gerade beginnt der #Koalitionssausschuss. Doch in der Kanzlerfraktion gab es gestern einen internen Wutausbruch.

Wie die Fraktionssitzung zur Frusttherapie wurde, haben
Veit Medick und ich recherchiert.

www.stern.de/politik/deut...
Druck auf Merz: Interner Wutausbruch in der Kanzlerpartei | STERN.de
Vor dem Koalitionsausschuss wächst der Druck auf Friedrich Merz, Reformen zu liefern. In einer Unions-Sitzung rechnen Kritiker mit Regierungsprojekten ab – und warnen die Führung.
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mpoessel.de
I'm wondering how representative the effort for the last German elections is in that diagram. Given that the elections were called rather surprisingly, and were known only 3 months and 7 weeks in advance. A much more limited timeframe for interference than for election dates known years in advance.
mpoessel.de
Legte man die unten verlinkte Tagesschau-Meldung und die IKEA-Pressemitteilung www.ikea.com/de/de/newsro... anonymisiert Menschen vor mit der Frage, welche davon von einer Werbeagentur verfasst sei, dürften wohl viele auf den ersten Text tippen. "Muss angesagtes Design gar nicht teuer sein?"
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Am Ende steht doch, dass E-Autos in der Gesamtbilanz besser dastehen?